The Battle for Oklahoma - State Question 788

Next Tuesday, the voters of Oklahoma will decide if we are will allow medical use of cannabis. In the final weeks the prohibs seems to be bringing out the big guns. A half million dollars in media misinformation and our local sheriff seems to have just lost his mind. lol

If it passes it will cost $2500 to apply for a commercial grow license that will allow you to grow as much as you can for profit. Also, signatures are now being collected for an initiative that would legalize adult use and write it into the constitution. This will be on the Nov. ballot of this year if it gets enough signatures.

As a person who once lived in a dry county. -I've since moved to a different state. But anyway, there was a huge anti alcohol campaign backed primarily by one of the large Baptist churches in the area. They spent millions against legalizing beer and liquor sales. As far as I know, nobody spent any real dollars on a pro-alcohol campaign. Maybe a few signs around town at best.

The measure passed with, if I recall around 83% voting to allow liquor and beer sales in town.

Fast forward a few months, and I happen to be talking to someone that was involved in the VOTE NO campaign and he couldn't understand how they could spend millions of dollars trying to defeat the measure and it didn't sway anybody's vote.

I grew up in Missouri but I remember dry counties from when we would visit Oklahoma. I'm not sure if there still are any now. This one county had a bar but you had to bring your own bottle, so everyone would have any under aged person carry the bottle so they could get in, lol. we should be getting some results pretty soon.

just an update on Oklahoma. We have bud now. Just five months since the people spoke we now have probably close to a hundred dispensaries on weedmaps alone. That's gotta be a new record. Not all are selling bud yet but some are and lot more are selling clones and seeds. I don't know a lot about sq 788 but the framers of it really seemed to anticipate every challenge that would come to it from the state and local authorities. So far it has stood the test and is the law of the land. Pretty impressive piece of legislation written and enacted by the people of Oklahoma.

The new law in Missouri gives the state 6 months to get things going. I am hoping that within a few months we can get licensing issues taken care of and get a dispensary operation going within a similar timeframe as OK, in 5 or 6 months. Please continue to update this thread with any issues that come up out there that you think we in Missouri need to be aware of.